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Not sure, probably depends on airframe. When I was a new tanker copilot with no real office responsibilities I worked* something like 40 hours most weeks. I think most pilots accept the increased hours as a necessary evil that comes with increased responsibility and rank. I think it would affect you differently if it was all you knew from the start. This beta experiment is still very much in progress and we'll see how it plays out. I suspect their going to need either BCP** to keep these guys in or the constant inflow of nonvols into UAVs will continue leading to fewer and fewer guys taking the ACP***. *Or at least was present at work. **Beta Continuation Pay ***In my squadron, I think about 1/3 of the people in my year group will take the money.

It takes the betas longer to graduate down at Holloman since their syllabus is longer. The vast majority of pilots in my current squadron are UPT grads. You can count on one hand the number of MQT'd 18Xers we have. I can't speak for other squadrons. The real question isn't "how many betas can we make", it's "how many betas can we keep"? These guys have 6 year commitments instead of 10, so they're sunk costs are lower at the decision point. 60-80 hour workweeks for years on end, mindnumbingly boring job, and better opportunities on the outside if the FAA opens the NAS to UAVs do not paint a happy picture for retention. I suspect we're pouring water into a bucket with no bottom right now.

RODN. I know only 2 people in the last 18 months who've gotten a follow-on tanker assignment. UAVs and UPT are running neck and neck for first place, MC-12s third and KC-135s a distant fourth. Anecdotally, my UPT peers who got 135s to other bases are all seeing the same thing. I suspect the pendulum will swing back in a couple of years when they realize they've emptied their tanker squadrons.

My previous squadron just sent 2 IPs to UAVs. Assignment path for both went Tanker-Tanker-UAV. I think these were 04 year group guys.

If you have questions about UAV training feel free to pm me.

How does this work? You can 7 day opt something and they get a mulligan to try and keep you in? Can you still leave either way? Educate me please.

If your on casual status: Enjoy your free time now, you will never have so much again. Also, learn how to operate a popcorn popper. That's an essential Lt level task in an operational squadron.

I thought the rules for Lts were: 1. Never miss an opportunity to shut the fuck up. 2. Life is not fair. 3. The jalapeno popcorn doesn't make itself.

I blame their leadership. Who lets an Lt talk to the media unsupervised? Isn't PA's primary job to prevent this sort of public buffoonery?

Facepaw. That is awesome.

Dude, finish your PHD. You can control that. What if you quit with "a few months left" and fail the medical screening after you finish OTS? You'll feel fucking stupid the rest of your life. If you're a good candidate for UPT and Big Blue passes on you because of a couple of months, that's their loss.

March also has KC135s and MQ1s. Enlisted aircrew jobs are boom operator and sensor operator, respectively.

I know the reasoning in my case was "You are on this VML, so fuck you.". Likewise for most of the AD guys in my MQ9 class.

They must have found a "dildork", which is kind of like a spork but not exactly ... Also, witch hunts suck. This McCarthyism aimed at the red blooded American male isn't going away. I'm so glad I'm getting out, only 3 years to go.

Honestly, doesn't the past affair make him more credible? The wife he cheated on has his back, shouldn't that tell us something? I can't imagine most woman would forgive a dude for a second instance of cheating, especially if it happened in their house while she was there and was also rape.

I stayed at Monarch Village just north of base. It fit within the on base lodging rate and you could get a short term lease. This was in 2009, so things may have changed.

Alternative technique is to just fake it like Jame Gumb dancing around in Silence of the Lambs. It puts the lotion on it's skin, or it gets the CBTs again.

That's stupid. Doxy prevents chlamydia, malaria, and normal dreams.

He shouldn't even worry about this since he will fail the eye test anyway. You have to be able to read between the lines.

That is awesome. So many briefers are code 3 without powerpoint.

Meh. This falls under the civic religion exception, plus the Chaplain needs OPR bullets too. Invocations are as much ritual as religion, and as long as it's reasonably nondenominational it shouldn't be a big deal. The level of religiosity present in invocations, blessing and such is enough to satisfy most of the religious folks, without being too much to be intolerable to most of the atheists and agnostics. Unfortunately, loudmouthed douchebags like Weinstein can't leave well enough alone. That said, I couldn't resist sharing this:

Damn those unintended consequences. If the USAF let people SIE without incurring a ridiculous bill (payback USAFA or ROTC), they wouldn't be incentivized to waste a bunch of time and JP8 on rides they know they're going to hook. Oh well, at least we get to look tough on quitters.

That's on the people posting, who should know better. This is awful enough for the families, finding out via Facebook is even shittier since they could be anywhere looking at their phone.

We lost a dude in T-1s. Couldn't land the thing, which isn't that hard to land. He was the only one I knew about in my 2 years at Vance. We've got a couple of UPT washouts in my current squadron (MQ-9s) and they're doing well. To bring this back on topic, nether of them were SIEs.

If that isn't Casus Belli, I don't know what is.